Travels in North America;
Item #81262
LYELL, Charles. Travels in North America; With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Two vols. 1st ed. xiii, [3], 316; viii,272pp. Foldout Frontis., 6 plates, 1 map, illus. Bound in later cloth-backed marbled boards, leather spine labels. Howes L-575. Sabin 42761 (ref). Clark III, 199 (ref). Lyell, the eminent British geologist, went to America in 1841 to lecture in Boston and to pursue his scientific investigations. He returned to England in August of 1842, having travelled through Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York (the folding colored frontispiece is of Niagara Falls), Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, the Midwest (especially Ohio), and Nova Scotia. The folding geological map of the U.S. in the second volume traces his route. "Lyell's powers of close, accurate observation, coupled with his judicious temper, render his works on America among the best of his generation" - Clark. "Interesting, valuable, and scientific" - Sabin.
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